Somewhat interesting debate. I fish mostly a lake around 5000 acres and I consider it fairly small. I catch lots of fish, and pretty decent sized fish out of it. Another lake near me is only 900 acres, and due to size has much more pressure per acre (same with the rest of my area 300-1000 acre lakes). With that smaller and less fish.
On the flip side, my favorite lake in is 55,000 acres (LOZ) and has extreme pressure, but if a study was done would still have less pressure per acre if calculated. Catching fish and large ones there is easy.
I have never fished a pond/lake that was privately managed- if I were to catch a big fish out of there I would be proud, however I would also not mount it. A heavily pressured managed pond that you may or may not catch a large fish out of is an accomplishment, but other needs should be taken into consideration.
Another thought is do we discredit lakes and fisherman that catch monsters that are trout stocked lakes-no, we are in awe.
I guess every picture of someone’s new pb must now contain the following Schaefer short-term catch equation which is as follows.
H(E,X) = qEX
where the variables are; H, referring to catch (harvest) over a given period of time (e.g. a year); E, the fishing effort over the given period; X, the fish stock biomass at the beginning of the period (or the average biomass), and the parameter q represents the catchability of the stock. Assuming the catch to equal the net natural growth in the population over the same period(X= 0), the equilibrium catch is a function of the long term fishing effort E:
H(E)=qKE(1- qE/r)
r and K being biological parameters representing intrinsic growth rate and natural equilibrium biomass respectively.
Note that this is really more a commercial formula management principle but it would also really change that state for state thread!
Also, I really have no idea what it means.
